Installs "Side-by-Side" with previous versions in order to allow beta testing without risking down time if an issue is encountered

While projects from older versions will open in this version, many of the following updates are incompatible with previous versions. Therefore data associated with them will not be loaded when opened in an older version, and will be lost when saved in an older version.

ex: Product Rules will be lost, but can be regenerated by refreshing from the Schedule.

Installs "Side-by-Side" with previous versions in order to allow beta testing without risking down time if an issue is encountered

While projects from older versions will open in this version, many of the following updates are incompatible with previous versions. Therefore data associated with them will not be loaded when opened in an older version, and will be lost when saved in an older version.

ex: Product Rules will be lost, but can be regenerated by refreshing from the Schedule.

To get the new submittal format with the Common Pages section you may have to update your saved templates. Just open your old template and hit Reset in the first submittal column and then save it as a template again. If you open an existing project and save it, it should still work in older versions. If you reset your submittal and then save it, the submittal will be missing pages in older versions.

Features:

Revamp submittal creation to include previews

Add area property for background rectangles and closed lines

Detect symbol color and apply to sensor pattern linework

Added cmds to crop imported image/pdf backgrounds in layout

Add properties display to every command to make it more clear when you are in a command (still cleaning up display command names)

Fixes

Change lock files to throw warnings if the lock file was written by current user (how it was)

Nlight air connection button bug fixes

Theme fixes

Relay panel bug fixes

CAT5 now gets DIVMFG attribute in agile xml

Erase and Rotate bugs in print designer

Null exception in openGL resize/unhook events

Properties flashed on update

Circle and Arc properties missing in symbol designer

Null ref when changing line time in symbol designer

Design copy doesn't copy zones

Stretch cmd can throw exception for index out of range

Zone btn can become out of sync

Bug fixes for room labels

Copying a product with assigned switch plate does not copy switch plate assignment

Rotate on placement toggle would not always work / rapid fire if ctrl key held

Missing undo for text edit

Wire not snapping to products during connect preview

Schedule notes toggle could become out of sync

Product label style product symbols missing wipeout in pdf

Visual Controls 1.4.3.10 (6/17/2019)

Notes:

This release of the Visual Controls software includes a licensing process similar to the Visual Lighting software. The first time you run this new release, you will now be prompted to enter an Activation Code. Get Activation Code
To retrieve your Activation Code, you can select “Get Activation Code” from the Activation screen or login to your Visual account on the Visual website at to https://www.visual-3d.com/Account/Account.aspx
Copy the Activation Code into the Activation screen and select Active to complete one-time activation process.

Backwards Compatibility

If you save a file in this version and then go back to 1.4.1.20 we are not aware of any problems with the file not opening. If you have changed the block style in a file you saved in 1.4.2 you will not be able to change the block style back in 1.4.1.20 easily, however you could refresh the symbols using Update Info in the schedule to return them to OS1 style. The only other issue might be before if you have rings and beams on, it can only be one or the other in 1.4.1.20 and prior.

Features:

New license model does not require AGILE login (see above)

All new pdf rasterizer for better speed and quality of rasterization

Ability to change block appearance to show product label "cad style blocks". This only works on blocks that have been updated. So your saved favorites may need to be updated to work. We are updating the last the nlight blocks in the database this week (nPP and nCM series are in progress). The nWSX series for example is updated. So place a nWSX. In the view ribbon expand the Label button, and select 'Product Name' and you should see "n$X" style text.

Changed position of catalog/lbl on products in risers

Ability to turn on rings and or "beam" patterns

Improving property panel field sizing

Improve room assignment grid column sizing

Enable bold or italic fonts

Update icons and positions

Avoid horizontal scroll bar in project explorer

Add font height adjustment on text edit window

Can change print page size on print designer

Add custom scale option for symbols

Remove text from product symbol in products sidebar

Set a minimum width for side panels to prevent them from being set too small

After deleting a room lbl, you can get it to reappear as an un-selectable entity

Scale undo, redo causes wires to disappear

Fix font color for bold & italic when in dark theme

Sensor pattern problems

Multiple issues with Zone labels

Symbols disappear when connecting bridges

Mouse hover over import image causes ghost effect

Arrow keyboard shortcut

PDF / Image importer problems

Drag & Drop image not working properly

Schedule refresh broken after copy command

Visual Controls 1.4.1.20 (5/28/2019)

Fixes (Issues resolved):

Users with intel graphics cards with driver version 24+ cannot see line work

Submittal reset hides print pages with SOO grids from being included in supplemental page section

Room name field gets focus during room command to make it easier to type in a room name during cmd

Update nECYD radio range dialog

Visual Controls 1.4.1.19 (5/9/2019)

Notes:

This setup for Visual Controls includes an updated OpenGL display engine that is optimized to improve performance on most video cards (Intel, Nvidia, AMD). Devices with certain integrated Intel video cards may be running a video driver which Intel has identified to cause issues with certain software applications. This video driver may have been updated on your computer during a recent Windows update. If your computer is experience graphical issues, the current solution is to rollback your video driver to an older version (see link below) or install a previous version of Visual Controls.

With the new connect command, you can either just click products, or click a point in between products to force the ‘arc’ in that direction, OR click 2 or more times to make a ‘complicated’ spline between products, eg down a long hallway